Finished my first semi-successful tattoo outline. It's a Cthulu girl. I was listening to Welcome to Nightvale, she was going to be a traditional sailor type tattoo but then I don't know, Cthulu just happened

I especially like those first 4 pictures. What did you use to take them?

just iphone, seriously. I use the app Afterlight to boost the contrast and saturation a little bit, no filters or anything though.
Are you going to get that Cthulu girl tattooed or is it for someone else?

i'm sure it is.. i'm curious about that kind of thing myself but I don't really want to invest in a bunch of tattooing stuff. is it expensive?

Yes and no. You can find a lot of it on Amazon for cheap, which is what I did at first. And then slowly. Replaced. Everything. Ink quality was the first thing, because cheap watery ink from China ended up leaking out of everything (wish I'd read the reviews first.) The power supply on the machine burnt out on day 2. The grommets for the needles didn't fit inside the needles without cutting them in half and melting them back together...

The machine I got is still working pretty well for me however. I just had to replace everything else in the kit, which ended up being way more expensive than if I'd just bought a decent $500+ kit in the first place. Otherwise, upkeep is a little pricey. Just have to stay stocked on fake skin, ink, gloves, and vaseline. And I'll need to invest in a second machine as a shader if I don't feel like taking apart and retuning my machine every time I switch from outlines to coloring.

Thank you! I might keep it really simply. I was going to use yellow/green/blue on all the Cthulu parts, then I realized most of the design is Cthuli parts and it'd look like a blob. I may just use every. fucking. color. all of them.

Finished my first semi-successful tattoo outline. It's a Cthulu girl. I was listening to Welcome to Nightvale, she was going to be a traditional sailor type tattoo but then I don't know, Cthulu just happened

I love this. It reminds me of that squid-skull drawing that Noah posted a long time ago. I don't think you were around for it but it was neat.

Finished my first semi-successful tattoo outline. It's a Cthulu girl. I was listening to Welcome to Nightvale, she was going to be a traditional sailor type tattoo but then I don't know, Cthulu just happened

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